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N0. s|7,424. Patented Jan. IQ, I899. R. PFLAUM.

FIRE LIGHTER.

(Application filed Dec. 31, 1897.;

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RICHARD PFLAUM, OF BERLIN, GERHANY.

FIRE-LIGHTER.

SPECIFICATI 0N forming part of Letters Patent No. 617,424, dated January 10, 1899.

Application filed December 31, 1897. Serial No. 665,189. (No model.) 7

1'0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, RICHARD PFLAUM, a subject of the King of Prussia, Emperor of Germany, residing at Berlin, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, have invented new and useful Improvements in Fire-Lighters in Laminated Form Covered with Advertising Sheets, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to a fire-lighter of laminated form having a protecting covering of sheets of paper or'other similar material suitable to be printed with advertisements.

These new fire-lighters are lighter, cleaner, and safer than those hitherto known and possess a degree of combustibility that adapts them for kindling every kind of domestic fire and stove.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating a fire-lighter embodying the invention and showing the manner of using the same. Fig. 2 is a crosssectional view thereof, and Fig. 3 is a similar view of another form of the invention.

The preparation of the new fire-lighter is conducted as follows: Paper or pasteboard or other similar sheets a, of any desired kind and strength, are saturated with a mixture of combustible matters and mineral matters, as shown in Fig. 2,0r are covered with a thin layer 1) of the same, as shown in Fig. 3, or both treatments may be applied successively. As the combustible materials all kinds of resins and resinous substances,tar or constituents of tar, paraflin, fats,waxes, sulfur, charcoal, 00., as well as mixtures of these substances, can be used either in the form of powder or in a molten condition or dissolved in an appropriate solvent. As suitable mineral matters, water-glass, clay, heavy spar, gypsum, sand, 850., are chiefly useful. These may be applied according to circumstances, mixed with the combustible substances or by themselves or in suspension in water. The paper may be 'two subscribing witnesses.

when the combustible material consists of resinous matters, paraffin, fats, waxes, or tar, they would be very objectionable to bandle, especially in warm or damp weather, owing to the liability of the material sticking to or discoloring the hands and of the sheets sticking together when rolled up or super= posed. In order to obviate these objections, the outer faces of the sheets a are not provided with a coating of combustible material, and any desired figures or advertisements may be printed upon these faces.

The new fire-lighter is sent into the market in the form of rolls or in convenient pieces. For example, they may be cut in pieces the size of a playing-card and these compressed to a handy block.

, I claim As a new article of manufacture, a firelighter of laminated structure consisting of two or more sheets of suitable flexible mate rial, the outer sheets being coated upon their inner faces with a combustible substance, and secured together, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed my nameto this specification in the presence of RICHARD PFLAUM.

Witnesses:

WILLY ZIMMERMANN, GUsTAv HEILSMANN. 

